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[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] TheMenInBlack

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* OpenHeartDentistry

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* OpenHeartDentistryOpenHeartDentistry: They leave an entire hardware store's worth of crazy tools inside some poor guy.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''For duty and humanity!'']]
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* RunningGagged: The final gag of the short is the doctors getting fed up with being constantly being called and wrecking the hospital's speaker, with crowbars and ''handguns''.
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* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves. The nurse's reason for whispering is that she lost her voice asking for a raise.

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* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr. Graves. The nurse's reason for whispering is that she lost her voice asking for a raise.
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[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] [[Film/MenInBlack The Men In Black]]

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[[NamesTheSame Not to be confused with]] [[Franchise/TheMenInBlack The Men In Black]]

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* ShoutOut: It's a pun on ''Theatre/MenInWhite'', an acclaimed stage play and later a 1934 Clark Gable film.



* WeirdAlEffect: More people today will be familiar with this short than ''Theatre/MenInWhite'', the 1934 Clark Gable film that it's a parody of.
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* WeirdAlEffect: More people today will be familiar with this short than ''Men in White'', the 1934 Clark Gable film that it's a parody of.

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* WeirdAlEffect: More people today will be familiar with this short than ''Men in White'', ''Theatre/MenInWhite'', the 1934 Clark Gable film that it's a parody of.
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* CatchPhrase: "For duty and humanity!"
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The short marked the only time the Stooges were nominated for an AcademyAward for Best Short Subject - Comedy.

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The short marked the only time the Stooges were nominated for an AcademyAward UsefulNotes/AcademyAward for Best Short Subject - Comedy.
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In their third short, ''Men in Black'', TheThreeStooges play medical school graduates whose only credentials are that they had the highest temperatures in their class. They are hired as doctors at the "Los Arms Hospital" only because they have been in their senior class for too many years. The new graduates at the hospital are warned by the superintendent that three of them (the Stooges) are "not overly bright," but that their identities will be concealed as long as they promise to devote their lives to "the glorious cause of duty and humanity", which prompts the three to step forward and thank him profusely for not letting their identities be known. The rest of the short consists of a series of skits in which the Stooges go from one patient to the next, making mistakes ranging from drinking a patient's medicine to sewing their tools inside a man on the operating table.

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In their third short, ''Men in Black'', TheThreeStooges Film/TheThreeStooges play medical school graduates whose only credentials are that they had the highest temperatures in their class. They are hired as doctors at the "Los Arms Hospital" only because they have been in their senior class for too many years. The new graduates at the hospital are warned by the superintendent that three of them (the Stooges) are "not overly bright," but that their identities will be concealed as long as they promise to devote their lives to "the glorious cause of duty and humanity", which prompts the three to step forward and thank him profusely for not letting their identities be known. The rest of the short consists of a series of skits in which the Stooges go from one patient to the next, making mistakes ranging from drinking a patient's medicine to sewing their tools inside a man on the operating table.



* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves. The nurse's reason for whispering is that she lost her voice asking for a raise.

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* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves. The nurse's reason for whispering is that she lost her voice asking for a raise.
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* WeirdAlEffect: More people today will be familiar with this short than ''Men in White'', the 1934 Clark Gable film that it's a parody of.
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* FaceFault: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]:they fall backwards.

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* FaceFault: [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]:they Inverted]]: they fall backwards.
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* FaceFault: Though they fall backwards.

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* FaceFault: Though they [[InvertedTrope Inverted]]:they fall backwards.
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** And of course: "Calling Dr. Howard, Dr. Fine, Dr. Howard!"
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* ItWontTurnOff: The loud speaker, even after the stooges destroy it.
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* PerfectlyCromulentWord: Moe's names for the surgical tools.
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* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves.

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* WhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves. The nurse's reason for whispering is that she lost her voice asking for a raise.
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* WhyAreWeWhispering

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* WhyAreWeWhisperingWhyAreWeWhispering: While operating on Dr.Graves.
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* TapOnTheHead: For once though it [[AvertedTrope actually doesn't work]] on the doctor they try it on.

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* TapOnTheHead: For once though it [[AvertedTrope actually doesn't work]] on the doctor they try it on. It later works on Dr. Graves, however.
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* RunningGag: The Stooges come out of the janitor's closet with different vehicles every time.

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* RunningGag: The Stooges come out of the janitor's closet storage room with different vehicles every time.time.
** Also, breaking the glass in Dr. Graves' door.
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* FaceFault: Though they fall backwards.
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* RunningGag: The Stooges come out of the janitor's closet with different vehicles every time.
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--> Calling Doctor Howard, Doctor Fine, Doctor Howard!

In their third short, ''Men in Black'', TheThreeStooges play medical school graduates whose only credentials are that they had the highest temperatures in their class. They are hired as doctors at the "Los Arms Hospital" only because they have been in their senior class for too many years. The new graduates at the hospital are warned by the superintendent that three of them (the Stooges) are "not overly bright," but that their identities will be concealed as long as they promise to devote their lives to "the glorious cause of duty and humanity", which prompts the three to step forward and thank him profusely for not letting their identities be known. The rest of the short consists of a series of skits in which the Stooges go from one patient to the next, making mistakes ranging from drinking a patient's medicine to sewing their tools inside a man on the operating table.

The short marked the only time the Stooges were nominated for an AcademyAward for Best Short Subject - Comedy.

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